Indiana’s two consecutive 25-point losses appear to make NCAA Tournament talk a bit far-fetched, but the Hoosiers have time to repair the damage.

Tom Crean points out areas of concern for the Indiana Hoosiers, who are trying to bounce back from consecutive 25-point losses.

Coming off a successful 2-0 road trip with wins over Northwestern and then-No. 23 Iowa, Indiana women’s basketball returned to Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Thursday to take on Illinois.

Indiana’s reserves brought the team back from a 23-13 deficit midway through the first half. The Hoosiers even took a brief lead after Bryson Tucker threw down a fastbreak dunk with 8:03 to go in the half that punctuated a 13-0 run.

Then again, sandwiching a 10-point home loss to an average Big Ten opponent between 25-point-plus massacres of conference foes – Penn State and Indiana – is taking up-and-down to an extreme. By now, we know what the No.